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Today’s guest is Valerie Hope and her work activates global leaders to come alive! For more than 20 years, she has dedicated her career to supporting leaders worldwide, to foster consciousness, connection, and creativity by exploring their subconscious beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors. Her transformational coaching leads clients to greater fulfillment, better collaboration, more trusting relationships, and a sense of aliveness. Valerie is a native Spanish speaker from Panama, her playfulness shines on the tennis court, improv stage, and in her community choir.At the very beginning of our conversation, Valerie shares a personal experience and the tools that she used to work through it in real time. Tools such as understanding emotional dysregulation, naming our feelings/ emotions in the moment, having empathy & curiosity instead of judgment and owning our emotion as a way of introspection! As a coach she also speaks about various strategies, and in small and big ways in which we can make changes in our life through actionable steps. Here’s Valerie Hope.

You’ve developed a self-awareness of who you are and where you want to go… but now what? Sound familiar? In my 20 years of practice as a Superior Court Mediator, clinician, executive coach, and parent, I’ve noticed one thing above all: No meaningful transformation can happen unless you find and apply the tools and skills that are right for you. See, the thing is, without tools, without a recipe, you might as well flip a coin and hope it works. Or, you’ll get burned out listening to bad advice, and following tips that just aren’t useful in your situation. I’ve been there, and I’ve seen thousands of clients right there as well… My name is Deepa, and Recipes for life is my show where you and I learn the ingredients of high performing, well-adjusted humans, how they get through their own life… all to craft a recipe for life of our own.

Learn more at https://deepapulipati.com/

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Karen Jaw-Madson is principal of Co.-Design of Work Experience, author of Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @ Work (Emerald Group Publishing, 2018), executive coach, and instructor at Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program and LinkedIn Learning. She enables decision makers to address organizational challenges that affect business performance, through:

1. Coaching and developing LEADERSHIP and their TEAMS

2. Enabling organizations to leverage CULTURE, DIVERSITY (DEIB), and EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE

3. OPTIMIZING TALENT by aligning people with strategy

4. Driving CHANGE MANAGEMENT & TRANSFORMATION

A former corporate executive, Karen is known as a versatile leader across multiple industries with experience developing, leading, and implementing organizational initiatives around the globe. She is featured in Inc., Fast Company, Fortune, Thrive Global, and MarketWatch, as well as written for publications such as Forbes, Greenbiz, SHRM's HR People+Strategy, TLNT.com, HR.com's HR Strategy & Planning Excellence magazine, and HR Professional. Other publications where she appears as a contributor include Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture, and Governance, Punk XL (Experience Leadership), The Secret Sauce for Leading Transformational Change, Advanced Health Technology: Managing Risk While Tackling Barriers to Rapid Acceleration, and A Woman’s Guide to Navigating a  Successful Career in Healthcare Information Technology. Karen has a BA in Ethnic and Cultural Studies from Bryn Mawr College and a MA in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.

Sustainable DEI: Taking Acting as an Individual, Team and Organization

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/sustainable-dei-taking-action-as-an-individual-team-and-organization

Getting (Re)Started with DEIB in Your Organization

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/getting-restarted-with-deib-in-your-organization

Aligning DEI, Culture, and Business Goals

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/aligning-dei-culture-and-business-goals

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You’ve developed a self-awareness of who you are and where you want to go… but now what? Sound familiar? In my 20 years of practice as a Superior Court Mediator, clinician, executive coach, and parent, I’ve noticed one thing above all: No meaningful transformation can happen unless you find and apply the tools and skills that are right for you. See, the thing is, without tools, without a recipe, you might as well flip a coin and hope it works. Or, you’ll get burned out listening to bad advice, and following tips that just aren’t useful in your situation. I’ve been there, and I’ve seen thousands of clients right there as well… My name is Deepa, and Recipes for life is my show where you and I learn the ingredients of high performing, well-adjusted humans, how they get through their own life… all to craft a recipe for life of our own.

Learn more at https://deepapulipati.com/

Subscribe at https://bit.ly/RecipesForLifeYT

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Today’s guest on Recipes for life is Aaron Tabacco. Aaron is the Director of Staff Experience at the UCSF Department of Medicine and a faculty coach at the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute at Berkeley-Haas Executive Education Program. An expert in the neurobiology of learning and behavior and family science, he is an internationally published scholar and former professor of nursing.In this episode, Aaron emphasizes the importance of being fully present for others, especially during difficult conversations, leveraging both professional and personal experiences. He highlights actionable feedback as a pathway to co-learning, discovery, and curiosity, introducing tools like pre-reflective work, story catalog, the trust equation, and Rosenberg’s NVC method.

Resources for Aaron's Episode:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i-trying-say-overcoming-ambiguities-delays-tabacco-phd-rn/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-tabacco-phd-83359b9/

In today's episode, Dr. Jenn Kennedy and Deepa discussed the importance of self-awareness, tools, and skills for personal and professional growth. They emphasized the need for individuals to prioritize self-care and manage their workload to maintain a healthy work-life balance. They explored common emotional challenges faced by high-performing clients, including issues with work-life balance, exhaustion, disconnection, and dissatisfaction in their partnerships. They highlighted the importance of creating a safe space for individuals to share their experiences and receive support, as well as the necessity for ongoing trust-building and vulnerability to overcome these challenges. Additionally, they addressed the challenges of leadership and emotional intelligence in high-pressure situations, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a connection with employees, setting boundaries, and prioritizing self-care to avoid burnout.

Dr. Jenn Kennedy earned a Masters in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Clinical Sexology.  She is also a board certified Sex Therapist. She has been working with individuals and couples in the areas of sexual satisfaction, dysfunction and interpersonal communication for eight years. She offers small group programs as well as one-on-one intensives.

Dr. Jenn also has considerable experience working with LGBT individuals and couples. She has taught as adjunct faculty in the masters program at Antioch University Santa Barbara, and served as president and past president of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (SB-CAMFT). She is a speaker and is frequently quoted by media outlets, including Reader’s Digest, Healthline, Redbook, Shondaland, Forbes Health, Allure and Giddy. She supervises up and coming therapists and operates Riviera Therapy in Santa Barbara.

Kennedy Marriage Therapy, Inc. owns and operates Riviera Therapy and Pleasure Project.

In this episode, Deepa is joined by Ayesha Mathews Wadhwa, Senior Director and Head of Global Brand Experience at Nium. Ayesha, an immigrant from India like Deepa, shares her story, ranging from her journey to the U.S. to her distinctive approach to branding and personal values. Deepa and Ayesha explore how to find community, tapping into one’s flow state, and understanding what energizes or drains us. Ayesha also shares her commitment to the principle of “Pyar se” (meaning ‘with love’) in all her endeavors, and her experiences of learning and collaboration within a community of like-minded individuals.